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GROSSMITH’S ENGLISH VIOLET CACHOUS LONDON, ENGLAND | circa 1920-29 [broadside: color illustrations | 29 cm.]
Standing display card which would have carried 18 packs of the breath freshening sweets held in place by elastic. The card is an attractive design in two shades of green and two shades of purple with gold overprinting.
Grossmith Shem-El-Nessim
Nose: Trevor Nicholl
notes: neroli, bergamot; orris, ylang-ylang, geranium, jasmine, rose; heliotrope, sandalwood, vanilla, musk, patchouli, cedar
Shem-el-Nessim ("smell the breeze") is a reconstruction of a 1906 floral perfume, and it's perfectly lovely, exactly as you'd expect. Quite aldehydic, with lots of subtly shimmering floral nectar, and a soft pale-blue shmear of iris butter.
A few minutes in, I start to feel the base, which is a solid ivory-toned vanilla-heliotrope thing, powdery and lightly sweet under the shining flowers. Where the florals blend with the vanilla sweetness the effect is glorious.
The whole thing is cool-toned and refreshing, very much like spring breezes. We're in a similar zone to other Belle Epoque ingenue classics like L'Heure Bleue, except without the violets and thus more to my taste. Shem-el-Nessim is delicate and maidenly, but not in the least wimpy or weepy; it's suffused with hope and brightness. Think Guinevere, not Elaine.
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Vicar: By the way. There is just one little detail with regard to the service. Would you like me to include the word “obey”?
Lady: What do you think, Birdie?
Lord: I submit that since my daughters have seldom seen fit to obey me, it is scarcely conceivable that they would give any such undertaking to these, ah… …ah, young men.
Vicar: Quite. Quite. (exiting) Then it is agreed that we omit the word?
Lord: (upon exiting) Quite. Quite.
Lady: Oh my dear Reggie, I’m distracted. This wedding rehearsal has turned the whole house upside down. I went into poor Birdie’s dressing room just now, and they’ve taken off everything except his drawers.
Reggie: I beg your pardon?
Lady: I mean taken away the furniture to put in a bed.
Reggie: Oh, huh.
Lady: I mean to put a bed in.
Reggie: Oh, yes.
Lady: …and my bedroom’s full of men in green beige aprons, and long hairs on their arms. Long blooms in their hair. Oh, I do hope they’ll be happy.
Reggie: Who? The men with the green beige hair?
Lady: No, the twins.
Reggie: Oh, yes.
Lady: Well, it’s such a lottery. It’s as though everybody could be sure of marrying an Irish sweep.
Reggie: No, well you must try to be an optimist.
Lady: I went to one last week. He said my eyes are perfectly alright.
Reggie: Yes, not an occulist, dear, an optimist.
Lady: hmmm, ‘course, yes… …Reggie, (demurely) what is that exactly?
Reggie: An optimist is a fellow who doesn’t care what happens, as long as it doesn’t.
Lady: I see… …Well, that is a help… …so, if it did, it wouldn’t?…
Reggie: No…
Lady: …would it?
Reggie: …No, not if it could. I should think.
Lady: …no… (chuckles)…
The Wedding Rehearsal (Alexander Korda, British, 1932)
Roland Young, Reggie Buckley Candysshe - Marquis of Buckminster
George Grossmith, Jr., Birdy Roxbury - Earl of Stokeshire
Lady Tree (born Helen Maud Holt, known professionally as Mrs. Beerbohm Tree, later as Lady Tree), Mrs. Susan Wroxbury - Countess of Stokeshire
Found nothing on the Vicar.
Written by: Lajos Biró, George Grossmith, Jr., Helen Gardom, Arthur Wimperis (dialogue) (Sir) Robert Vansittart.
information via Wikipedia, and IMDB.
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I don’t normally post on weekends, but this post was all done and ready to go, and I haven’t posted much lately.
In the wee hours of the night, I stay up with my two-and-a-half month old daughter and try not to do any online shopping. Therefore, I end up doing silly things like dissecting nine different versions of a Middle Eastern cookie recipe to create one über-recipe or compiling long lists…
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Why should I not publish my diary? I have often seen reminiscences of people I have never even heard of, and I fail to see—because I do not happen to be a ‘Somebody’—why my diary should not be interesting. My only regret is that I did not commence it when I was in my youth.
George Grossmith’s “Diary of a Nobody”
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George and Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody
